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GreenManGaming have now dismantled their 'free game' Golden Joysticks offer - word from their Twitter is that if you didn't vote AND register on their site thereafter, you'll probably not get a free game (if you did and don't have it yet - you should get it soon).

Given that, as best as I can tell, the registration part hasn't worked for a long time - that seems a little dishonest on their part - especially as they tell people who report it not working to "wait 24 hours at least" (at which point they close the deal!!)

We'll have to see how this pans-out but as it stands they're in my "potentially dishonest" file - they use things like Reddit to promote their deals so they must realise they'll be popular.

How they handle this will tell if they become a good guy or a Gamersgate I guess...

GreenManGaming have now dismantled their 'free game' Golden Joysticks offer - word from their Twitter is that if you didn't vote AND register on their site thereafter, you'll probably not get a free game (if you did and don't have it yet - you should get it soon).

Given that, as best as I can tell, the registration part hasn't worked for a long time - that seems a little dishonest on their part - especially as they tell people who report it not working to "wait 24 hours at least" (at which point they close the deal!!)

We'll have to see how this pans-out but as it stands they're in my "potentially dishonest" file - they use things like Reddit to promote their deals so they must realise they'll be popular.

How they handle this will tell if they become a good guy or a Gamersgate I guess...

I can only assume they got hit pretty hard by exploiters. Kind of inevitable, considering this is the internet we're talking about.

I still got my key, and so did all of my friends who tried (as far as I know), so I don't think there was any ill will on their part - and it did make me more inclined to buy games from them in the future. That's a success, I guess.

Not to disrupt the argument of how GMG are horrible people who hate all of their customers because reddit broke their giveaway, but Blade Symphony is also part of the weekly deal (it looks like they aren't in the graphic because they wanted to do a 75% off but Steam told them that Early Access games can only go down to 50%, which is interesting)

I find myself very tempted. I vaguely recall an RPS preview that was favorable and watching a few youtubes I get a strong JK1 (without damage cranked up to stupid-awesome levels) vibe from it. Anyone have it and have thoughts? Or a more recent youtube?

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Note: my grumble is that they advertised widely that you should go and vote and then redeem for a free game.

The voting bit wobbled for a while but it came back wheras theredemption bit hasn't worked for the majority of people (judging by the number of posts asking about it) and their reply was "just wait - it will work soon".

Then they close the giveaway and tell people who'd not redeemed by that time 'tough luck'.

Then they close the giveaway and tell people who'd not redeemed by that time 'tough luck'.

That's cunty in my book...

Er ... they offered to give away two popular games for free and all you had to do was give advertisers your e-mail and do a peoples choice voting thing. Sure they underestimated demand and it broke, but how is that "cunty?" That's like calling someone an asshole becasue they they got stampeded when they shouted out they were giving away free bags of potato chips to first-comers resulting in hospitalization and a lot of broken chips. Christ. Who poisoned your coffee this morning ...

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If you're going to judge something, you could try to understand it first at least?

Around 5 days ago, GMG advertise VERY WIDELY - including on Reddit - that if you vote in the Golden Joysticks, they'll give you a free game. They aren't shy about this - they SHOUT VERY LOUDLY about this - they cannot be surprised it was popular!

There are 2 parts to this

Part1 - goto the CVG site and vote
Part2 - goto the GMG site to get your free game

Part1 fell over very quickly - within 3-4 hours of it starting it was shaky and it was taken down shortly thereafter. It remained down for quite a while - at least 24 hours, probably longer.

Part2 was shaky at this point too - people who had managed Part1 were either being told they had not voted or told there had been a 'glitch in the Matrix' (*yawns*) and that they should try again.

People who raised these problems via support/forum/Facebook/Twitter were told that they had to wait "at least 24 hours after completing Part1 before they could complete Part2".

In the meanwhile, CVG have fixed Part1 so loads more people now manage to vote (including me)

Part2 is still not working at this point - people are still being told that either they've not voted or that there's been that glitch in the matrix (seriously - move the fuck along, it's 2013!!)

The 24 hours thing was nonsense - I tried at least a dozen times over a 48 period and it failed every time with the "I live in 1995" matrix message - other people are reporting the "you have not voted" message over similar periods.

Roll forward to today and GMG close Part2 (without any warning or suggestion there was a limit on doing it). When questioned they've said that if you'd not managed to complete Part2, you wouldn't be getting a free game - well thanks for that.

I cannot see this as anything less than promising something you couldn't deliver - at best it makes them look both incompetent and quite possibly outright dishonest (it also taints the awards but then that's hardly a new concept is it?)

p.s. CVG website is also a nightmare of a thing with several people reporting that they were being shown other people's profiles/random profiles/random people's details instead of their own - but that's another clusterfuck entirely...

Sounds like they fucked up. Doesn't make them assholes. They promised something they couldn't deliver, but it was a relatively one-sided promise. It's not like they put a lot pressure on folks who didn't get their free game. Nothing you've said contradicts my understanding of what happened, so I have no idea why you're pulling rank on me here.

I'm sorry you didn't get your free game. I don't mean that snarkily. I'm just surprised people are upset instead of just ... I don't know, miffed?

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Deus Ex Human Rev - The DIRECTORS CUT! is up on Gamefly - http://digital.gamefly.co.uk/#!/down...;s-cut/5006854 for £12.99 and the coupon GFDOCT20UK works on it to bring it down to £10.39 which isn't much of a saving for UK people, but for Euro people that works out at about €13 so its a good pre release discount

Also I really like that on the sale page they have a little note telling you about the discount on steam if you already own it.

Has anyone tried Blade Symphony? I am very tempted, but it is an indie multiplayer game, and I've have enough good games with no community.

Oh it does - they COULD have been a lot clearer about the limits of the offer (it's not like they didn't know how many games they had to give away) - they could have made the claim system work fairly rather than throwing errors and them telling people to 'try again in 24 hours' (when we'll have closed it)

According to Reddit, you could register accounts with CVG and GMG and repeatedly get games - that's why they closed the voting on CVG (tho they just broke their website trying to fix it) - GMG's site remained exploitable without even resetting cookies or hiding your IP tho.

I've yet to find anyone who claims to have received a key from them since Sunday - they closed the deal on TUESDAY and in the interim continued to tell people just to 'try in 24 hours' - that's a dick move.

They're getting a HUGE amount of abuse through forums, Facebook, Twitter and they've said NOTHING since closing the deal other than "if you didn't register, you won't get a game". Well done fellas - way to lose custom...

p.s. I guess this falls into my personal pet category of "how is it so many people on the Internet have no fucking idea how the Internet works - how do these people get jobs??" - I wonder why I bother making stuff which works, clearly it's not what people want :)

See, THIS is kind of why I am largely ashamed to identify as a "gamer". GMG and the award peoples are giving away free games. At least one under active development (I forgot, it was Civ5 and what? I know I had both so I didn't care). They were swamped, in large part because of Reddit and the like.

Now, they are "assholes" and "have no fucking idea how the Internet works". Sadly, the latter IS true. They should have known that it just isn't worth doing nice things as promos because all that happens is it gets abused and a bunch of entitled little children bitch and moan about them and are saying that this will lose them customers. Honestly, I doubt anyone who is this hung up about a failed promo is going to be a steady customer anyway.

People bitch that EA "doesn't care about the fans". People complain that Blizzard "squander their good will". Why SHOULD any devs or companies care about gamers if all that is going to happen is a bunch of whiny little children scream and throw hissy fits the moment they see even the most minor of slights? Fuck the fans. The fans are annoying little shits who are going to hate you no matter what you do. You are better off doing whatever maximizes profits since said "fans" are going to buy the games they want anyway, regardless of what you do.

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Take it to another thread? This one is already clogged up enough and it's gone from "get a bargain of a free game" to "gmg are dicks!"

I am bargain-less at the moment.

Honestly, if all you want are the deals, don't use a forum. Use reddit. The r/gamedeals subreddit is VERY good at getting basically every deal worth grabbing, and you can set up an RSS feed with filters to only get them from the sites you like.

The point of a message board and community is to have discussion of the deals and bargains and the like, to see if something is a good deal or what, and to know what strings are attached. While the "GMG are assholes" is a bit off topic, I still really don't see anything wrong with it as it is related to a deal. Just like discussions of if a game is worth getting.

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What gundato said - Reddit gamedeals is THE place for deals - we come here to highlight the best of them and have a chat about them but if you want all the deals, this isn't the right place.

I'll drop the GMG thing here - my take is that they exploited people so that a small number of keys would lead to a large number of votes and signups - it seems most of the 'benefit' went to people who signed-up repeatedly in the hope of exploiting the deal and the backlash will entirely land on GMG, as it should.